The Rajya Sabha Secretariat – Junior Clerk Exam Pattern & Syllabus

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The Rajya Sabha Secretariat conducts open competitive examination for filling up Junior Clerk vacancies that may occur in the following posts from time to time:

Junior Clerk is responsible for typing and data entry. He/She receive communications/dak on behalf of the Section, diaries them and submit to the Executive Officer for perusal and distribute them to the dealing hands as per instructions. Maintaining section diary, file register, file movement register and such other registers/records as may be prescribed is also their responsibility. He/She also prepares various statements/returns as may be prescribed.

Exam Pattern of Junior Clerk : The Examination Scheme for recruitment to the post of Junior Clerk in the Rajya Sabha Secretariat consists of four stages…

1. Preliminary Examination (Objective Type-Multiple choice answers) : The Preliminary Examination is a screening test for selection of candidates for the main examination and is of objective type. It consists of only one paper of 180 marks (Duration 3 hours) having three parts as indicated below:-

Part A :

Subject : General Intelligence

No. of Question : 60 Questions

Marks : 60 Mark

Part B :

Subject : General Awareness

No. of Question : 60 Questions

Marks : 60 Mark

Part C :

Subject : English Language

No. of Question : 60 Questions

Marks : 60 Mark

2. Skill Test : Candidates qualifying the preliminary examination for the post of Junior Clerk will have to appear for skill test (Typing Test) as given below and no candidate who does not qualify skill test will be allowed to sit for further stages of recruitment process:

Paper : Paper I

Subject : Typing Test @ 40 W.P.M. in English/Hindi/Urdu

Marks : 100 Mark

Duration : 10 minutes

3. Main Examination (Descriptive Type) :

Paper : Paper I

Subject : English Language

Marks : 80 Mark

Duration : 2 hours

4. Interview (20 marks) : The interview is structured to evaluate the interests, knowledge, traits, aptitude, skills etc. of the candidates with a view to assess his/her overall personality and to judge his/her suitability for the post.

Syllabus for Junior Clerk : The syllabus of the Preliminary Examination (Objective type) and the Main Examination (Descriptive type) for recruitment to the post of Junior Clerk in the Rajya Sabha Secretariat is as under…

General Awareness : Questions shall aim at testing the candidate’s awareness of current events and environment around him/her, besides testing the knowledge of Everyday Science, Scientific Research, Sports, Indian Culture, Indian History, Indian Geography, Economics, Indian Polity, Indian Constitution, etc.

English Language : Questions in this component are designed to test the candidate’s understanding, correct usage and knowledge of English Language and will be based on error recognition, fill in the blanks (using Verbs, Prepositions, Articles, etc.), vocabulary, spellings, grammar, sentence structure, synonyms, antonyms, sentence completion, phrases and idioms, etc.

Main Examination :

English Language : This paper will test the skills and abilities of the candidate in Essay Writing, Precis Writing, Comprehension, Drafting of letters/notices/other forms of communications in English.